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Staging the new Berlin: Place marketing and the politics of urban reinvention post-1989
Abstract from the publisher: This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in…
London 800 - 1216 : The shaping of a city
Abstract from the publisher : London 800-1216 : The shaping of a city takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but is designed also to be a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the…
Learning from Cairo. Global Perspectives and Futue Visions
Learning from Cairo, co-organized by CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) and the American University in Cairo, was an international symposium that sought to engage the current political and urban transformation…
Urbanisation sans urbanisme, une histoire de la ville diffuse
L’urbanisme traditionnel peine à appréhender des formes d’urbanisation aujourd’hui largement majoritaires en Europe : les territoires contemporains "d’entre-deux", ni urbains ni ruraux. Ils posent question à ceux qui les analysent, les organisent…
Le commerce dans tous ses états. Espaces marchands et enjeux de société
Ce livre est la synthèse de nombreux travaux universitaires français et étrangers dont l’objet est moins d’approcher le commerce stricto sensu et du seul point de vue géographique que de le mettre en rapport avec d’autres facteurs et processus…
Reading the Islamic city: Discursive practices and legal judgment
Abstract from the publisher: Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally…
The medieval town
The late Fritz Rörig was an Emeritus Professor and member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. Alternative link to this book via Google Books
Le développement durable changera-t-il la ville ? : le regard des sciences sociales
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Apparue sur la scène internationale à la fin des années 1980, la notion de développement durable a vite fait figure de panacée aux problèmes économiques,…
La fabrication de la ville, métiers et organisations
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Les grandes villes françaises sont souvent décrites au travers de leur dynamique socio-économique, de leur histoire, de leur identité, des éléments…
The urban wilderness : A history of the American city
From the foreword by Charles Tilly :
For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. A 1994 poll of urban history scholars identified him as the country's most influential…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
The fate of cities : Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945-2000
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By the end of the twentieth century, decaying inner cities in America continued to lose ground despite the best efforts of local and federal officials. By then the investment in urban revitalization begun during the…
For the ciy as a whole: Planning, politics, and the public interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965
Extract from the Introduction:
I am interested in "using" Dallas to understand better the changing nature of politics and planning in urban America during the twentieth century. Dallas is hardly typical of all cities, but it is closely…